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This paper wraps up a theme issue on Callahan's vulnerability thesis (as related to school superintendents), which was presented in his 1962 book, Education and the Cult of Efficiency. The paper examines the various auth...
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Summarizes the viability of the vulnerability thesis as a tool in accounting for school superintendent behavior today, suggesting how the thesis can be built on in order to better understand the political world of superi...
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Introduces a theme issue that focuses on the vulnerability thesis as it relates to public-school superintendents and what that means for superintendent-education programs and the practice of school supervision. The issue...
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Reexamines Callahan's book, "Education and the Cult of Efficiency" (1962), and his vulnerability thesis regarding school superintendents, discussing recommendations it made and highlighting public education in the 1990s....
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Business takes the lead in four stages of school reform in Texas. Legislative sessions that dealt with educational reform are described. The reform is seen as reinforcing the power holders in the state education structur...
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The education reforms of the 1980s may best be viewed as a single national reform with state variations. A brief overview is presented of five state education reforms which are described and analyzed in this issue. (JD)...
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Using Becker's sacred/secular community type continuum and Bailey's concepts of elite/arena council behavior, examined the educational decision making process on the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho. Discusses i...
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In this monograph, the authors describe the shortcomings of traditional approaches to continuing education of administrators and examine the extent to which innovations are being attempted in present practices. The autho...